Libel charges can lead to 2 years imprisonment A leading Taiwan CWI (International Socialist Forward) comrade, Hsu Wei-Yu, is being threatened with libel action by CTi, a large media corporation with links to the Chinese […]
130,000 march on April 28 – now we need a one-day political strike!
What is behind the new found indignation of the US and other governments over China’s repression of its Muslim minorities?
Forced confessions and more disappearances as CCP regime persecutes worker and youth activists
The failure of Taiwan’s pro-LGBT referendum in November last year does not represent the end of the marriage equality and LGBT movement in Taiwan and we need to rebuild a fighting LGBT movement against further […]
Government abandons its campaign against financial risk as private companies queue for a bailout
A new wave of repression is sweeping China’s universities. Security forces have detained more than a dozen student activists since the start of November. All the victims are connected to a solidarity campaign for factory […]
On 27 October, 137,000 people marched in Taiwan’s capital in the 16th annual Taipei Pride demonstration. The number of participants broke the record in Taiwan, making the demo once again the biggest LGBT+ demonstration in […]
In the final week of August, the CCP (‘Communist’ Party) dictatorship launched a nationally coordinated crackdown against left youth activists and workers fighting for trade union rights in Shenzhen.
“Continue the struggle!” are the fighting words of Shen Mengyu in a letter smuggled out of her detention cell in Shenzhen, China. Readers will feel as if she is speaking directly to them and will […]
Introduction to the Commission on China at the CWI School 2018 by Pasha of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)
The world has moved closer to a trade war on multiple fronts as Trump’s administration rolls out its aggressive ‘America First’ trade policies, taking aim at both close US allies and major rivals.
Crane drivers in China’s construction industry have taken strike action in dozens of cities across the country. That the strikes are coordinated is a stunning achievement for these workers.
The ‘Stop Repression in Hong Kong’ campaign, which is supported by the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), is planning a day of worldwide protests on Friday 4 May. Readers around the world are urged […]
The news from Beijing is historic – nothing less than a political earthquake with repercussions around the world. At its upcoming “parliamentary session” (the National People’s Congress, NPC, which starts next week), China will remove the […]
The Chinese dictatorship’s massive infrastructure plan is the spearhead for its whole economic and geopolitical strategy. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has assumed increasing importance for the regime of China’s ‘strongman’ Xi Jinping.
The sweeping crackdown on dissent in China under Xi Jinping is well known. While most international media reports focus on repression against liberal dissidents it is not unusual for left activists also to be targeted. […]
A nine-minute video made by the New York Times may cost Tibetan language rights activist Tashi Wangchuk fifteen years in prison. He is the latest victim in an unprecedented crackdown in which hundreds of dissidents […]
The word environment was mentioned 89 times by Xi Jinping in his report to the 19th Congress of the ruling “communist” party, even more than ‘economy’. He has sent out investigative teams from the central […]
The 19th Congress of the CCP, held in October, adopted the party leader’s doctrine of iron dictatorship. China’s “great power” status is enshrined in the party constitution but stable government is still by no means […]
Hong Kong is facing an unprecedented attack on democratic rights orchestrated by its pro-Beijing government. In recent months young activists have been jailed and elected legislators have been ousted from the partially elected local parliament […]
Jailing of 13 young democracy activists for thirteen months raises the bar on government repression – coordinated fight back is needed!
Xinjiang is the vast Muslim-majority region in China’s far west where Turkic speaking Uighur Muslims are the largest ethnic group. Under Chinese rule it has been transformed into a 1.7 million square kilometre prison. Rich […]
Chief Executive-elect gets just 777 votes
Donald Trump’s cruise missile attack on a Syrian airbase on 6 April, during a round of “beautiful chocolate cake” with China’s president Xi Jinping, marks a reckless and dangerous escalation of tensions in the Syrian […]
On 12 April 1927, a bloody military coup turned the tide on the Chinese Revolution
Defend the four Hong Kong legislators. Leung Kwok-hung is a veteran campaigner for democracy in Hong Kong and popularly known as ‘Long Hair’. He is an elected member of Hong Kong’s semi-elected legislature, the Legco, […]
International Women’s Day: “Solidarity with global mass protests and women’s strikes”. Over 70 attended the Socialist Action (CWI) candle-lit demonstration in Hong Kong for International Women’s Day, 8 March. Protesters squeezed behind police barriers at Hong […]
Pan-democrats sink to new low by supporting “lesser evil” John Tsang. Hong Kong’s Chief Executive election is a five-yearly political farce. It has been described as the world’s most bizarre election. Just 1,194 electors in […]
Island risks being pawn in his game
Outbursts raise fears of confrontation
Xi Jinping becomes “core leader”
Model resolution
Protesters defy crackdown
A short history of the Olympics:
Only winner from tribunal’s ruling is arms industry
Has China’s economy turned a corner?
Education ministry retreats over increased tuition fees
Gangster methods of China’s regime exposed
Territorial disputes resemble pieces on a ‘geopolitical chessboard’ as the US and China struggle for hegemony in Asia
Video by CWI comrades in China and Hong Kong
Massive clampdown by state censors
Discussion on what is happening in China
Thousands march in Heilongjiang province opposing job cuts.
Year of the Monkey opens with economy in worst situation for decades
“China is entering a dark night of repression and detentions under Xi Jinping”
Determined battle for pension rights and an end to contract labour
Corruption, poor oversight and chase for profits, maim thousands
Arrests in Guangdong province as workers’ struggles multiply
Socialist Action’s Sally Tang Mei-ching lifts opposition vote to 33 percent
Discussions on perspectives for Hong Kong’s democracy struggle and the crisis in China
More than $5 trillion wiped off global stock markets in two weeks since Chinese devaluation
Sudden reversal of Beijing’s exchange rate policy underlines seriousness of China’s economic woes
Regime adopts panic measures as market crash threatens wider economic recession
El frenesí del mercado de valores y las cifras maquilladas del PIB no pueden ocultar la realidad de una economía en graves problemas
Billions wiped off share values in June – only the Greek stock market is more volatile
Secret trial of Zhou Yongkang
26th anniversary of the Beijing massacre on June 4, 1989, is also a warning of revolutionary shocks ahead
Government’s electoral reform proposals meet with mass opposition
Stock market frenzy and fabricated GDP figures cannot hide the reality of an economy in deep trouble
Five women activists released in rare climb down by Beijing regime
Has the commemoration of International Women’s Day also now been outlawed in China?
Right-wing ‘Pan-democrats’ float “compromise” proposals
Economy decelerated 30 percent in five years
China’s economic slowdown already being felt throughout world economy
Taiwan’s ‘Sunflower Movement’ and democracy protests in Hong Kong fuel massive rejection of ruling party
Beijing’s scare propaganda doesn’t stand up to examination
Warmongering governments ratchet-up national tensions in struggle for regional dominance
Signs the mammoth property bubble is finally bursting belie Beijing’s upbeat GDP data
Battle-lines hardening as masses push for democracy while government steps up repression
1989 massacre apologists accuse Socialist Action (CWI) and radical legislator ‘Long Hair’ of ‘violence’
180,000 attend ‘6.4’ anniversary protest • Rival protest events show political polarisation
Case against former security czar risks dangerous splits in ruling party
Local government, police and company bosses coordinate crackdown
40,000 workers paralyse world’s largest sports shoe maker
What are the lessons of the island’s ‘sunflower movement’?
Demonstrators call for trade pact to be withdrawn and for president to step down
Down with undemocratic Kuomintang rule – for a Taiwan-wide student strike as the next step!
Oppose the capitalist trade deal – build a mass workers’ movement
Massive environmental destruction is the true cost of nuclear power
Shock and disbelief as 29 are hacked to death at railway station
Interviews with refugees fighting injustice and official high-handedness
“To achieve justice we must change the whole system!”
Politically explosive investigation of former security czar marks a new phase of internal power struggle
Xi Jinping’s shift from dictatorship-by-committee to new ‘paramount leader’ is a high-risk strategy
Chinese state steps up repression against Uighurs and other national minorities
Support grows in campaign for release of imprisoned workers’ representative
Socialist Action calls for one-day strike by media workers
Shenzhen factory workers’ representative held by police for five months
Free Wu Guijun! Free the Guangzhou 12!
Regime risks internal earthquake, as power struggle sharpens
New leaders facing economic and political crisis
People in China’s cities are choking on smog. This past winter the capital Beijing, and other northern cities, suffered their worst air pollution readings on record.
Beijing’s sharp credit squeeze adds panic on global financial markets
24th anniversary of Beijing’s crackdown draws 150,000 protestors
Vital lessons for today’s democracy struggle
Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism
Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8 percent – but important issues are unresolved
‘Defend pensions! Stop corruption!’
At annual NPC-CPPCC meetings Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang talk of ‘tough reforms’ for economy, but rule out ‘Western models’
Chinese regime’s repression responsible for Tibetan self-immolations
Over 200,000 take to the streets on the eve of Japan’s Fukushima anniversary – to demand a nuclear-free Taiwan
Spirit of Wukan revived with demands for democratic vote over land seizures
Open letter from 70 intellectuals warns of “violent revolution” without a change of course
Marchers demand Chief Executive CY Leung’s resignation and one person one vote
Rising national tensions point to new turbulent era in East Asia
Brutal conditions behind latest flare-up at iPhone manufacturer
Sensational murder trial of princeling wife hides more than it reveals
90,000 march against government’s new national education curriculum
Overcapacity and rising debt burden limits government’s policy options
Solidarity needed in fight to save jobs
Massive 180,000-strong crowd turns out for yearly candle-light vigil in Hong Kong • “CY effect” evident as rising local discontent coalesces with indignation over 1989 massacre
For the first time in two decades an open power struggle erupts within China’s one-party state
Anniversary of Japan’s twin disasters and Fukushima meltdown sees nuclear capitalists back on the offensive
Workers’ strikes and new local rebellions use the slogan “Learn from Wukan”
TV news report highlights the case of CWI supporter Zhang Shujie
CWI’s Zhang Shujie speaks out at hearing in Sweden’s parliament
LSD legislator from Hong Kong to speak in support of young socialist Zhang Shujie, forced to flee China
Repression against left activists increasing in China
Government debt soars to ‘European’ levels following massive stimulus programme
Women workers at Hi-P international in Shanghai continue their strike against layoffs for 8th day
CWI Taiwan members make media splash
Socialist Action organized demonstration to protest mass arrests in New York and other US cities
Manic, uncoordinated and corrupt railway development plans need to be immediately and thoroughly checked and reconstructed under public and democratic control
Socialist Action’s (CWI Hong Kong) first election campaign
Second major protest against pollution in one week
Upturn in mass protests and “unprecedented display of police strength”
“I can’t say anything,” says outspoken artist; protests against state repression must continue
Thousands of farmers and students join protest marches in at least six cities
But more than one in three Chinese still live in poverty according to World Bank
Working conditions at suicide-company Foxconn in China largely unchanged, says new report
Blockade at world’s biggest container port • Mass arrests and police repression
Paul Murphy MEP condemns the brutal repression of the Chinese state and calls for the release of Chinese artist, Ai WeiWei.
One of China’s most prominent artists Ai Weiwei has been seized and detained by state security agents as he was about board a flight to Hong Kong at Beijing airport on Sunday 3 April.
“Biggest political crisis since 2003”
Young women play key role in strikes in China’s export industry
More than 400 bus drivers and conductors in strike action and sit-in over wages in China’s southern metropolis of Shenzhen
Radical political force dealt a serious blow • Pro-Beijing camp jubilant
Nationalise Foxconn under workers’ control and management – end the scourge of ‘blood factories’
Chinese authorities have made 96 detentions of people suspected of producing and selling melamine-tainted dairy products
“The government is guilty! The government is not taking responsibility for us!”
Unionise fast food and other low pay sectors, launch a serious struggle for HK$33 (4.25 US-$) minimum
The Chinese police illegally arrested Zhao Dongmin, as the government-controlled puppet trade union accused Maoist activists of "disrupting social order"
A force of 2,000 People’s Armed Police (PAP) used to suppress massive protest by villagers in China’s southwest
Shi Chuan, chinaworker.info Due to infamous sweatshop working conditions, serial suicides and accidental deaths, the largest global OEM corporation (original equipment manufacturer), Foxconn, is shifting its manufacturing bases from China’s southeastern coast to inland provinces. […]
Fight school closures!
Joe Higgins speaking in the European Parliament on 21st September 2010 on the EU-China summit
Regime announces union ‘reforms’ – is democratisation of the state-run unions on the cards?
Against violent attack on environmentalists
Protests have broken out in Guangzhou and Hong Kong over a proposal from Guangzhou-based official Ji Kekuang that Guangdong Television stop its news coverage in Cantonese and go over to Putonghua (Mandarin), China’s official language.
A summer of discontent may await the ‘communist’ dictatorship as the giant of labour begins to stir
150,000 people attended the Victoria Park candlelight vigil to commemorate the 21st anniversary of 1989 Beijing massacre (video)
"Strike until success – re-constructing the trade union!"
Request for solidarity for YFOTU’s struggle for basic labour rights – No to sweatshop mobile phones!
Massive media focus attempts to hide cause of calamity: greedy managers and a total absence of workers’ rights
What is it really about?
Mass struggle needed to break the undemocratic grip of Beijing-backed capitalist elite
Hainan staff take on European lingerie giant ‘Triumph’
Repression increases – two cases within 24 hours: dissident Li Jian Hong, and CWI member Laurence Coates, banned from entering China
Laurence Coates held for two hours at border and banned from country
Ongoing misery for working people
Capitalism abolished, but power in hands of Stalinist Communist Party
Steelworkers in Henan province follow example of Jilin steelworkers and force local officials to suspend sell-off
30,000 workers fighting for jobs and pensions in northeast China
140 killed and 800 injured in worst ethnic clashes for decades in China’s Muslim-majority region
More than 70,000 demand ‘one person one vote’ in biggest protest since Tsang took over
“Not forgotten, not forgiven”
Highest turnout since early 1990s shows that legacy of “6/4” (June 4th massacre) remains a powerful factor among Chinese people
Authorities nervous in lead up to Tiananmen 1989 massacre
“No economy is falling faster than China’s at this moment”
Released from prison in Liaoning province
New socialist quarterly launched
Fish, pork, and chicken contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine, along with milk and eggs
Millions face being thrown out of work in Guangdong province
Anti-establishment mood leave government and business leaders in state of shock
Beijing one of the most polluted cities in the world
Over 12,000 dead and 19,000 buried
Hardening positions over Tibet and Western ’insults’ to China threaten wider crisis
Massive anger as Hong Kong-owned company slashes 4,000 jobs
”This is the most disastrous defeat since the establishment of the party” – Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian
Growing national and religious tensions – How do socialists approach this issue?
Dean Roberts from ‘The Socialist’ newspaper in Australia visited China where he met with Li Gang who is a 25 year old white collar worker and socialist from Shanghai
A view on the nature of China’s state.
Thousands of people in Shenyang, capital of north-eastern China’s Liaoning province, took to the streets over several days recently.
‘Fifth generation’ leaders groomed for office in 2012
What is Mao’s significance for today’s workers and youth in China
Strike-hit town ’blacked out’ by police and government – international protests needed!
’Black’ brick kilns and factories product of capitalist ’market’ system
Exclusive eyewitness accounts
Eastern China sees largest urban protest movement for many years
Official report reveals "Dereliction of duty and abuse of power" on a grand scale
’Part-time’ workers on 13 hour shifts. State-run trade unions win ’victory’, but for whom?
At this year’s recently concluded National People’s Congress (NPC) meeting, the Chinese government promised to increase efforts to cut pollution, spend more on poor rural areas, the health service and schools.
Article on www.chinaworker.org/
On China’s highly automated assembly lines, the capitalists prefer to use female labour and even child labour.
Reforms "worse than shock therapy"
"The problem is that billions of people are affected and the people running world trade are not even elected," says Greg Bradshaw, member of the Socialist Party (cwi Australia), who is today’s ’Protest Portrait’ in […]
The case of workers at the Hong Kong-owned battery producer Gold Peak’s three China-based factories, who are suffering from exposure to the chemical cadmium, has received international attention.
Protest outside Hong Kong company as poisoning scandal deepens.
The community of Dongzhou in Guangdong province is in a state of shock four days after paramilitary police opened fire on thousands of demonstrators protesting against seizure of their land to build a coal-fired power […]
The massive toxic chemical spill, which left the city of Harbin without running water for a week, has drawn global attention to the downside of China’s boom.
Health of millions threatened
Recently, Peter Taaffe and Laurence Coates from the CWI wrote replies to Mikawasima Tookjo, who’s recent article, "Is Taiwan a nation?" raised a number of key issues on the cause of nationality and the approach […]
What attitude should Marxists adopt to the national question in Taiwan?
“We hope that the EU can acknowledge fully the negative influence on bilateral trade relations when it imposes limits on Chinese textile products.”
The protests by students and young people in China, and similar protests in South Korea, against Japan’s resurgent militarism, are causing growing apprehension among world political leaders, businessmen and now, it seems, the Chinese regime […]
The planned sell-off would place the majority (51 per cent) of the company’s equity in private hands – the official definition of a “privatised” company.
Filipina women workers in the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, have been locked in battle with the China Times Weekly (CTW), one of the country’s three top circulation newspapers, over a racist and sexist article it ran […]
A brutal police attack on an anti-pollution protest at an industrial park on the outskirts of Dongyang city, Zhejiang province, triggered huge clashes between thousands of protesters and 3,000 riot police.
Angry anti-Japan protests erupted in several Chinese cities at the weekend, with a crowd of 6,000 mostly students and youth marching on the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, while 3,000 demonstrated outside Japan’s consulate in the […]
A flurry of diplomatic initiatives and counter-initiatives from Taiwan’s sharply divided political establishment – the anti-independence pan-blue bloc and formally pro-independence pan-greens – has shifted the cross-strait issue (i.e. relations with China) into overdrive.
Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China’s Communist Party (CCP) leader for opposing the military crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy protests, has died at the age of 85, after suffering a series of strokes.
Ahead of Taiwan’s elections on 11 December, Taiwanese socialist Huang Ding-wang who is living abroad gave the following interview to Laurence Coates of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).
The rapidly changing situation in China is of vital importance to socialists internationally.
Ahead of Taiwan’s elections on 11 December, Taiwanese socialist Huang Ding-wang who is living abroad gave the following interview to Laurence Coates of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden).
The final death toll may rise to over a hundred at the Daping coal mine in what is China’s worst mining disaster so far this year.
Defence campaign for imprisoned metalworkers in Liaoyang
Yao Fuxin and Xiao Yunliang imprisoned for defending workers’ rights
Rapid economic development over 20 years led some commentators to claim China could deliver sustained global growth. But it has started to falter, and risks becoming a destabilising factor in the world. And the dramatic […]
Cries of "stolen election", 337,000 spoiled ballots, a double assassination attempt and riots in the streets… Taiwan’s presidential election had it all!
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